Regenerative Agriculture, Biodiversity, and Apparel

Tin Shed Ventures® is Patagonia’s corporate venture capital fund that, like our parent company, is solely focused on saving our home planet. Tin Shed contributes to this mission by investing a portion of Patagonia’s profits into startups that can provide systemic and globally scalable solutions for the land, water, air, and biodiversity crises underpinning climate change. We specifically focus on solutions in the sectors we know best – food, apparel, and protecting natural ecosystems — which allows us to add the most value to our portfolio companies.  We hope the joint value we create with our portfolio companies will yield returns that allow us to give back to our sole limited partner, our home planet.  

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Portfolio

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Wild Idea Buffalo

Wild Idea raises buffalo using a model that restores grasslands within the Great Plains.

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Beyond Surface Technologies

BST is a Swiss company that makes textile treatments using natural materials and green chemistry.

Perennial Fund

The Perennial Fund offers loans to help farmers transition to regenerative practices.

NuMat Technologies®

NuMat focuses on innovative and sustainable material science.

Nofence

Nofence virtual fencing enables regenerative grazing, allowing for easier and faster boundary changes and access to previously ungrazed areas.

Trove

Trove operates recommerce platforms for apparel brands.

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TERSUS® Solutions

Tersus provides back-end recommerce services, including their proprietary waterless launder, to increase the longevity of garments.

Heirloom Carbon

Heirloom rapidly accelerates the natural ability of minerals to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

Edacious

Edacious is building tech to measure food nutritional quality quickly, cheaply, and at scale, to help accelerate the regenerative transition.

Rubi Labs

Rubi turns industrial CO₂ emissions into drop-in cellulose pulp to replace trees as an input in man-made cellulosic fibers (MMCFs).

Bureo®

Bureo converts discarded fishnets into the first 100% post-industrial nylon with performance levels incorporated across our product lines.

Cairnspring Mills

Cairnspring Mills specializes in producing fresh and nutritious flours.